Short film created in Unreal Engine showcases a photorealistic world

A short film that premiered at GDC highlights the photorealism potential of Unreal Engine, and it would be easy to assume Rebirth is a live-action short given how life-like it looks. The video depicts an atmospheric environment full of craggy rocks,…

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March 21, 2019

Streaming subscriptions overtook cable in 2018

Cable companies have been nervous about streaming services for a while, but now they have a particularly good reason to be jittery. An MPAA report citing IHS Markit data has shown that there were more subscriptions worldwide to online video services…

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March 21, 2019

Google is convinced it can get game streaming right

Phil Harrison won’t budge. As a vice president and general manager at Google, he’s spent the past 15 minutes explaining why Stadia, the company’s freshly announced game-streaming service, will actually work on the existing internet infrastructure acr…

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March 21, 2019

Mindy Kaling’s awkward teen comedy is coming to Netflix

Mindy Kaling is bringing “relatable, awkward teen moments” to Netflix. She announced on Twitter that she and screenwriter Lang Fisher are working on a 10-episode comedy. Loosely based on Kaling’s own childhood, it will portray the modern-day life of…